Teenager Will Burton (Gaelan Connell) lives in his head, and his head is filled with music. When his mum Karen Burton (Lisa Kudrow) gets a job in New Jersey, Will starts his junior year at a new school only to find the old cliques still apply, but rock-n-roll rules the scene. Perpetually a misfit, Will strikes up a friendship with like-minded outsider Sa5m "the 5 is silent" (Vanessa Hudgens). Surprisingly, the school's "it" girl, Charlotte (Alyson Michalka) recruits Will to assemble a band to compete in Bandslam, a battle of the bands that is "Texas High School Football BIG." With music as the great equalizer, Bandslam is a movie that proves love, friendship, and music can all rock your world.